When stalled novelist Charlie Wasserman’s investment-banker wife divorces him, he finds among her belongings a box of letters. Written between 1940 and 1944, the letters reveal a love affair between her grandfather, Theo, a forty-something lawyer at the time, and...
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The shortlists for the 2017 Sunday Times Literary Awards were announced at the The Mesh Club in Johannesburg on Saturday 14 May 2017. Congratulations to PEN SA members Yewande Omotoso, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Mark Winkler, Zakes Mda, Kopano Matlwa, Christa Kuljian...
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The longlists for the 2017 Sunday Times Literary Awards, consisting of the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, have been announced. The winners of the two categories will each receive R100 000. Congratulations to the...
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The annual PEN International New Voices Award provides a space for young and unpublished writers to promote their work. It also aims to encourage new writing in the more than 104 countries that PEN operates in as PEN Centres put...
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Last week PEN South Africa Board Member Mark Heywood wrote about the state capture crisis and The Save South Africa campaign’s plans to address it. Heywood is a member of the campaign’s steering committee. He, along with PEN SA, called...
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